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Ed Southam.Pdf Education in South America 29704.indb 1 10/03/2015 07:22 Available and forthcoming titles in the Education Around the World Series Series Editor: Colin Brock Education Around the World: A Comparative Introduction, Colin Brock and Nafsika Alexiadou Education in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, edited by Michael Crossley, Greg Hancock and Terra Sprague Education in East and Central Africa, edited by Charl Wolhuter Education in East Asia, edited by Pei- tseng Jenny Hsieh Education in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, edited by Nadiya Ivanenko Education in North America, edited by D. E. Mulcahy, D. G. Mulcahy and Roger Saul Education in South-East Asia, edited by Lorraine Pe Symaco Education in Southern Africa, edited by Clive Harber Education in the Commonwealth Caribbean and Netherlands Antilles, edited by Emel Thomas Education in the European Union: Pre-2003 Member States, edited by Trevor Corner Education in the United Kingdom, edited by Colin Brock Education in West Africa, edited by Emefa Amoaka Takyi-Amoako Education in West Central Asia, edited by Mah-E-Rukh Ahmed Forthcoming volumes: Education in Non-EU Countries in Western and Southern Europe, edited by Terra Sprague Education in the European Union: Post-2003 Member States, edited by Trevor Corner 29704.indb 2 10/03/2015 07:22 Education in South America Edited by Simon Schwartzman Education Around the World Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 29704.indb 3 10/03/2015 07:22 Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square 1385 Broadway London New York WC1B 3DP NY 10018 UK USA www.bloomsbury.com BLOOMSBURY and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published 2015 © Simon Schwartzman and Contributors, 2015 Simon Schwartzman and Contributors have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Authors of this work. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. No responsibility for loss caused to any individual or organization acting on or refraining from action as a result of the material in this publication can be accepted by Bloomsbury or the author. British Library Cataloguing- in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN: HB: 978-1-4725-9246-0 ePDF: 978-1-4725-9248-4 ePub: 978-1-4725-9247-7 Library of Congress Cataloging- in-Publication Data CIP data to follow Typeset by RefineCatch Limited, Bungay, Suffolk Printed and bound in Great Britain 29704.indb 4 10/03/2015 07:22 Contents Series Editor’s Preface vii Notes on the Contributors ix Introduction: Regional Overview Simon Schwartzman 1 1 Argentina: Public Policies in Education, 2001–2014 Juan Carlos Tedesco 21 2 Argentina: Rethinking Government Models for Education Silvina Gvirtz, Angela Inés Oría and Esteban Torre 35 3 Bolivia: Perspectives and Challenges for Multicultural Education Fabricia de Andrade Ramos and Mauricio Blanco Cossío 63 4 Brazil: The Role of States and Municipalities in the Implementation of Education Policies Maria Helena Guimarães de Castro 97 5 Brazil: Curriculum of Basic Education Guiomar Namo de Mello 117 6 Brazil: Why José Can’t Read João Batista Araujo e Oliveira 131 7 Brazil: Costs and Economic Benefits of Education Fernando de Holanda Barbosa Filho and Fernando Veloso 155 8 Chile: The Evolution of Educational Policy, 1980–2014 Cristián Bellei and Xavier Vanni 179 9 Chile: Effectiveness of Teacher Education Beatrice Ávalos 201 10 Chile: The Quality of For-Profit Schooling Gregory Elacqua 221 11 Colombia: Upper Secondary Education Reform Martha Laverde Toscano 249 12 Colombia: Public–Private Partnership to Support Decentralized Education Santiago Isaza 269 13 Colombia: Comprehensive Care for Early Childhood Marina Camargo Abello 285 29704.indb 5 10/03/2015 07:22 vi Contents 14 Ecuador: Learning to Work Together Orazio Bellettini, Adriana Arellano and Wendy Espín 305 15 Ecuador, 2007–2014: Attempting a Radical Educational Transformation Pablo Cevallos Estarellas and Daniela Bramwell 329 16 Paraguay: An Overview Cynthia Brizuela 363 17 Peru: Impact of Socioeconomic Gaps in Educational Outcomes Santiago Cueto, Juan León and Alejandra Miranda 385 18 Uruguay: The Teachers’ Policies Black Box Denise Vaillant 405 19 Venezuela: Political and Institutional Transition, 1999–2014 Mabel Mundó 423 Index 451 29704.indb 6 10/03/2015 07:22 Series Editor’s Preface This series will comprise nineteen volumes, between them looking at education in virtually every territory in the world. The initial volume, Education Around the World: A Comparative Introduction, aimed to provide an insight to the field of international and comparative education. It looked at its history and development and then examined a number of major themes at scales from local to regional to global. It is important to bear such scales of observation in mind because the remainder of the series is inevitably regionally and nationally based. The identification of the eighteen regions within which to group countries has sometimes been a very simple task, elsewhere less so. Europe, for example, has four volumes and more than fifty countries. National statistics vary considerably in their availability and accuracy, and in any case date rapidly. Consequently, the editors of each volume point the reader towards access to regional and international datasets, available on line, that are regularly updated. A key purpose of the series is to give some visibility to a large number of countries that, for various reasons, rarely, if ever, have coverage in the literature of this field. The region with which this book is concerned is one of the more straightforward to identify. South America is, after all, one of the recognized continents of the world. However, not all of its political geography is included in this volume because parts have had to be placed elsewhere. Guyana is in the volume on the Commonwealth Caribbean and Netherlands Antilles, as is Suriname, while the former French Guiana is now part of France itself and therefore in the European Union. The remainder of South America is divided between its two major linguistic identities, Spanish and Portuguese. The latter is represented by Brazil, by far the largest and most populous country on the continent and one of the world’s rising stars. The former is represented by all the other countries, but it must be remembered that there are innumerable indigenous Amerindian communities with their indigenous vernaculars, as well as areas where other European languages of immigrant groups still remain. Given this diverse and complex picture I would like to thank the editor, Simon Schwartzman, for the skill and care with which he has assembled and presented this important volume in the series. Colin Brock Hon. Professor of Education, University of Durham, UK 29704.indb 7 10/03/2015 07:22 Notes on the Contributors Adriana Arellano is Research Director at Grupo FARO, an independent policy research centre in Ecuador. Before joining Grupo FARO, she worked as a consultant to the Inter-American Development Bank and The Union of South American Nations (USAN) and began as Education Policy Analyst and then became Director of Policy Management at the Coordinating Ministry of Social Development. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in commercial engineering, with a focus on finances, from the Pontificia Universidad Católica, Ecuador and an MA in Social Work and Social Policy Management from Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA. Beatrice Ávalos is Associate Researcher at the Centre for Advanced Research in Education, University of Chile, where she leads a research group on teacher related topics. She has recently been awarded the 2013 National Prize in Educational Sciences by the Chilean government. Between 2007 and 2010, she coordinated the Chilean application of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) Teacher Education and Development Study in Mathematics study at the Ministry of Education. She holds a PhD from St Louis University, USA. Fernando de Holanda Barbosa Filho is a Researcher at the Brazilian Institute of Economics (IBRE) of the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), Brazil. He lectures on macroeconomics and development economics at the FGV. His most recent work has focused on current labour market developments in Brazil. His main publications and work are concentrated in the areas of development economics, human capital and labour market. He earned his PhD in Economics from New York University, USA. Cristián Bellei is Research Associate in the Centre for Advanced Research in Education at the University of Chile, where he is a sociologist. Previously he worked in the Ministry of Education of Chile and UNICEF. His research, teaching and publications relate to educational policy, educational equity, school improvement and the factors associated with educational attainment. He holds a PhD in education from Harvard University, USA. 29704.indb 9 10/03/2015 07:22 x Notes on the Contributors Orazio Bellettini is Co-founder and Executive Director of Grupo FARO, an independent policy research centre in Ecuador. Since his graduation at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, USA, with a Master Degree in Public Administration and Public Policy in 2004, Orazio has advised international agencies, civil society organizations and governments in several countries on issues related to the role of knowledge in the policy process, education, social change and institutional reform. Mauricio Blanco Cossío is Researcher and Co-founder of the AFortiori Institute in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Previously, he worked as researcher at the Instituto de Estudos do Trabalho e Sociedade (IETS), Brazil, and the Instituto de Pesquisas Econômicas Aplicadas (IPEA), Brazil. He graduated in economics at the Universidad Católica of La Paz, Bolivia, and holds Masters Degrees in political science and international relations.
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